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ASUS P4T533-C motherboard user guide
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2.4 Central Processing Unit (CPU)
2.4.1 Overview
The motherboard comes with a surface mount 478-pin Zero Insertion
Force (ZIF) socket. This socket is specifically designed for the Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 478 Processor.
Note in the illustration that the CPU has a gold triangular mark on one
corner. This mark indicates the processor Pin 1 that should match a
specific corner of the CPU socket.
Incorrect installation of the CPU into the socket may bend the pins and
severely damage the CPU!
Gold Mark
The Intel Pentium 4 Processor in the 478-pin package uses the Flip-Chip
Pin Grid Array 2 (FC-PGA2) package technology, and includes the Intel
®
NetBurst™ micro-architecture. The Intel NetBurst micro-architecture
features the hyper-pipelined technology, rapid execution engine, 533/
400MHz system bus, and execution trace cache. Together, these attributes
improve system performance by allowing higher processor frequencies,
faster execution of integer instructions, and a data transfer rate of 4.2GB/s
and 3.2GB/s.
P4T533-C
®
P4T533-C Socket 478
Gold Arrow